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A picture of the manuscript leaf of the Throne Verse from the Quran. The colour of the letters is black and with a few red signs, the colour of the paper is light beige and there is a thick vertical dark beige line along a thinner, bluer line on both sides of the text.

How to Get Banned from Teaching the Quran: Medieval Cairo Edition

by Shuaib Ally, McGill University Around the turn of the 15th century in Cairo, a hadith scholar named Salah al-Din al-Aqfahsi heard Salah al-Din al-Kalai, a scholar associated with the Sufi Shadhili order, teaching the Quran. Part of his teaching…

Edinburgh University Press
August 10, 2023

The Writer as Memory Activist

How to Get Banned from Teaching the Quran: Medieval Cairo Edition

The Writer as Memory Activist

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